Suggestion: winpty WSL PTY support

[lars18th]

Hi @rprichard ,

After reading about inverted-wslbridge.exe at mintty/wsltty#41 (comment) ,
I request why the winpty tool can't implement WSL PTY support (aka "WSL winpty adapter").

I like to use the WSL shell as my regular terminal in Windows, for both Windows and WSL Linux command tools. At time, using the wslbridge I can open the WSL shell in any Terminal (CMD, Cygterm, SSHd, etc.). However, I can't execute the winpty from it for the known error of stdin is not a tty. So the only solution to run standard interactive console Windows tools from the WSL shell is, as I see it, to implement the WSL PTY support in winpty.

Please, can you consider this enhancement?
Thank you!

Note: Regarding the idea of accessing to Win32 name pipes from WSL, the project npiperelaydoes it (using go):
https://github.com/jstarks/npiperelay
https://github.com/tprasadtp/npiperelay

[rprichard]

In principle, I think you could ssh from WSL into a Cygwin SSHD, then run winpty.exe from there.

It looks like Microsoft is improving their console/pty/terminal subsystem, and hopefully in the future, the winpty and wslbridge projects won't be needed anymore. See microsoft/terminal#57. It looks like the cmd.exe shell can run inside a WSL Gnome Terminal.

I request why the winpty tool can't implement WSL PTY support (aka "WSL winpty adapter").

I probably could, but I'm not that motivated to work on this.

[lars18th]

Hi @rprichard ,

I'll close this issue as the real solution is to implement support for ConPTY API, as described in #152.

I hope you will support it soon. 😉
Regards.